And that was only on the first day that the news broke that DSK was accused of assaulting a hotel maid.

I've always thought the NYC tabloids adopted the persona of the abrasive New York detective 'Popeye' Doyle, as portrayed by Gene Hackman, and his hatred of haughty French criminal Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) in the film The French Connection, in their attitude to Strauss-Kahn.

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